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3 Strategies for Personalizing Feedback Online

Catlin Tucker

Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014). Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015).

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Top Web Links from 2014

Learning in Hand

This means I can easily see the most popular links I shared during 2014! I shared hundreds of links in 2014, and I''m proud that 8 out of my top 10 most clicked links are my own blog posts or creations. One way to have your own URL shortener is to buy the domain and use YOURLS , free software that runs on a web server.

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Higher education technology predictions for 2014

Mark Smithers

Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. It will get louder in 2014. Expect MOOCs to continue to be the most high profile focus of academic angst in 2014. These types of projects will be just outliers in 2014.

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Edcamp Online 2014

Educator Innovator

The software, called “unhangouts,” leverages Google Hangouts but adds special functionality to truly simulate the Edcamp experience in an online space. Mark your calendars for October 25, 2014 from 12:30 p.m. While Edcamps are usually face-to-face sessions, this one will connect people from any place and location.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

The Hechinger Report

Last year, Brandi Pitts’ kindergarten students were struggling with a software program meant to help them with math. Her school had received free software licenses through a state-funded project, but she’d initially missed the formal instruction on how to use the program because she was out sick. “A

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The (Native) App is Dead; Long Live the (Web) App

The Journal

On 28 October 2014, the W3C approved a standard version of HTML5, a programming language for the web. HTML5 is nothing short of a sea change in educational software. For K-12 at least, HTML5 is totally disruptive – in a GOOD way!

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Tips for Migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2014

EdTech Magazine

By Russell Smith Follow this advice to move data from an existing server to a new one.

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